Ƙ

Traditional uppercase and lowercase K with hook.

Wrong and preferred uppercase K with hook

Wrong and preferred lowercase K with hook

Ƙ (minuscule: ƙ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in Hausa to represent an ejective [kʼ].

It was formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless velar implosive (currently [ɠ̊]). It was withdrawn in 1993.

See also

Other hooked letters

• Ɓ Ɓ
• Ƈ ƈ
• Ɗ ɗ
• Ɠ ɠ
• Ƥ ƥ
• Ƭ ƭ
• Ƴ ƴ

Alphabets with this letter

• African reference alphabet
• Pan-Nigerian Alphabet
• Alphabets for the following specific languages
  • Hausa

External links

• "Latin Extended B: Range 0180-024F" (Unicode code chart)

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter K with diacritics
Ḱḱ	Ǩǩ	Ķķ	Ḳḳ	Ḵḵ	Ƙƙ	Ⱪⱪ	ᶄ	Ꝁꝁ
Letters using hook sign ( ◌̉ )
Ɓɓ	Ƈƈ	Ɗɗ	Ƒƒ	Ɠɠ	ɦ	Ƙƙ	Ɱɱ	Ɲɲ	Ƥƥ	ʠ	Ƭƭ	Ʋʋ	ⱱ	Ⱳⱳ	Ƴƴ
Related
History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646